The content wasn't "readily available". People were either locked at home, the libraries were closed, or else disease-ridden. Archive.org was providing knowle

The content wasn't "readily available". People were either locked at home, the libraries were closed, or else disease-ridden. Archive.org was providing knowledge in a time of emergency when people had no other means of access to knowledge, and people who may have been out of work due to a pandemic, and thus unable to afford to buy the stuff if it even was available via mail. It wasn't some trivial lark.